General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. It can also be used as a groundcover in water gardens and along pond and lake edges.
Ecological Restoration Notes: A relatively common element of a wide variety of freshwater wetlands.
Availability:
Grown by a few native plant nurseries.
Description: Small creeping wildflower. Leaves aromatic when crushed.
Dimensions: Typically 3-6 inches in height or less. Spreading and forming large patches.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Southeastern United States west to Texas and south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Freshwater marshes, swamps and pond margins.
Soils: Wet to moist, seasonally inundated organic, sandy or calcareous soils, with or without humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate to low; it prefers soils with organic content, but will still grow reasonably well in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance: Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance: Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements: Full sun.
Flower Color: Blue.
Flower Characteristics: Showy. Fragrant.
Flowering Season: All year.
Fruit: Inconspicuous capsule.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from cuttings and division.
Comments: The leaves are lemon-scented.
